Experimental Robotics VI

From insects to robots....Pages 3-12
Control and coordination of multiple mobile robots in manipulation and material handling tasks....Pages 15-24
Experiments in constrained prehensile manipulation: Distributed manipulation with ropes....Pages 25-36
Experiments with desktop mobile manipulators....Pages 37-46
Experimental approach on grasping and manipulating multiple objects....Pages 47-55
Preliminary results on the use of stereo, color cameras and laser sensors in antarctica....Pages 59-68
Sensors for the object detection in environments with high heat radiation and photoresist or diffuse visibility conditions....Pages 69-78
New techniques for 3D modeling ... ... and for doing without....Pages 79-88
A mobile robot navigation by means of range data from ultra wide angle laser sensor and simple linguistic behavior instructions....Pages 89-97
Explicit incorporation of 2D constraints in vision based control of robot manipulators....Pages 99-108
Experiments with medium-level intelligent force control....Pages 111-120
Coordinated manipulation under distributed impedance control....Pages 121-130
Experiments and factory application of force control and contour following over visco-elastic surface....Pages 131-138
Coordinated control of a nonholonomic mobile manipulator....Pages 139-149
Exploiting redundancy for autonomous calibration of a planar robot....Pages 151-160
Models for automated earthmoving....Pages 163-172
Robot control in maxillofacial surgery....Pages 173-182
Experiments and experiences in developing a large robot mining system....Pages 183-192
Slope display on a locomotion interface....Pages 193-201
Control of contact forces in wheeled and legged off-road vehicles....Pages 205-214
Control of a gyroscopically stabilized robot....Pages 215-224
Localization and map building for a mobile robot....Pages 225-234
Construction and modelling of a carangiform robotic fish....Pages 235-242
Can an underactuated leg with a passive spring at the knee achieve a ballistic step?....Pages 243-252
Navigation of a martian rover in very rough terrain....Pages 255-264
An experimental and theoretical investigation into simultaneous localisation and map building....Pages 265-274
Continuous probabilistic mapping by autonomous robots....Pages 275-286
Sensor influence in the performance of simultaneous mobile robot localization and map building....Pages 287-296
Experimental analysis of adaptive concurrent mapping and localization using sonar....Pages 297-306
Quasi real-time walking control of a bipedal humanoid robot based on walking pattern synthesis....Pages 309-318
Experimental validation of physics-based planning and control algorithms for planetary robotic rovers....Pages 319-328
Elastic strips: A framework for integrated planning and execution....Pages 329-338
RoverBug: Long range navigation for mars rovers....Pages 339-348
Human skill transfer using haptic virtual reality technology....Pages 351-360
Experiments with web-based telerobots....Pages 361-367
A review of robot world cup soccer research issues RoboCup: Today and tomorrow....Pages 369-378
A portable programming framework....Pages 379-389
ACME, a telerobotic active measurement facility....Pages 391-400
A new computational model of friction applied to haptic rendering....Pages 403-412
Macro-micro control to improve bilateral force-reflecting teleoperation....Pages 413-422
Haptic surface exploration....Pages 423-432
Force and vision feedback for robotic manipulation of the microworld....Pages 433-442
Experiments on the control of flexible-link manipulators carrying large payloads....Pages 445-454
Identification of joint elasticity of industrial robots....Pages 455-464
Modelling friction in multi-loop linkages....Pages 465-474
Implementation of dual-arm cooperative control by exploiting actuator back-drivability....Pages 475-484
Towards human friendly robots: Vision-based interfaces and safe mechanisms....Pages 487-498
Development of a humanoid H4 with soft and distributed tactile sensor skin....Pages 499-507
Development of the torso robot — Design of the new shoulder mechanism ‘cybernetic shoulder’....Pages 509-518
Combination of several vision sensors for interpretation of human actions....Pages 519-528